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With focus on electric three-wheelers, ‘Switch Delhi’ campaign’s 2nd week launched

6:13 pm February 14, 2021

New Delhi: The second week of the Kejriwal government’s ‘Switch Delhi’ campaign focuses on the outreach for electric three-wheelers and aims to sensitize, inform, and encourage Delhiites to adopt electric three-wheelers in the national capital. Three-wheelers are one of the major contributors to vehicular emissions in Delhi and the policy lays special focus on incentivizing […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

AAP teacher association to fight DU polls

10:55 pm February 10, 2021

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party teachers’ organisation will fight the Delhi University’s executive and academic councils elections, a party leader said on Wednesday. AAP MP Sushil Gupta said just the way the Kejriwal government had made ”significant improvements” inside government schools, the party wanted to make similar qualitative changes in Delhi University. Gupta said Narendra Kumar Pandey has been nominated as the candidate of […]

More farmers pour into protest site at Ghazipur border, extra forces withdrawn

2:54 pm January 29, 2021

Ghaziabad: Crowds swelled on the Ghazipur border on Friday as around 1000 farmers from western Uttar Pradesh joined the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) members who have stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway to demand repeal of agri laws, while several farmers from Haryana decided to move towards Delhi borders to join the stir. Notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to the protestors to vacate the UP Gate protest site, more farmers from […]

Bird flu: FSSAI advises consumers not to eat undercooked chicken; says no need to panic

Bird flu scare: Delhi bans import of live birds; Ghazipur poultry market, Sanjay Lake shut

10:41 pm January 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Saturday announced a ban on import of live birds and closure of the city’s biggest poultry market at Ghazipur after more avian deaths were reported in the national capital where three recreational parks and the famous Sanjay Lake were shut. Addressing an online media briefing, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said while no confirmed case has so far […]

Amarinder dubs Kejriwal’s announcement of observing fast as ‘theatrics’

11:03 pm December 13, 2020

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday described his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of observing a fast on Monday as ”theatrics”. Kejriwal has said he will observe a daylong fast on Monday in response to a call given by the farmers protesting against three new farm laws. Singh said the Kejriwal government had ”backstabbed” the farmers by ”shamelessly” notifying one of […]